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Lightening Storm kills 323 Animals

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A freak lightning storm has killed 323 reindeer in a remote mountainous area of Norway, officials said on Monday. Dead animals were found lying on top of each other, many with their antlers entangled, after the thunderstorm on the Hardanger plateau in southern Norway on Friday. "We've never had anything like this with lightning," Kjartan Knutsen of Norway's nature surveillance agency said, adding there were sometimes isolated cases of sheep or reindeer struck down. Reindeer tend to group together when in danger. It was unclear whether the herd had been killed by a single lightning bolt or several. Hardanger was extremely wet on Friday, helping conduct lightning. "The high moisture in both the ground and the air was probably an explanation for why so many animals died," Olav Strand, a senior researcher at the Norwegian Institue for Nature Research, wrote in a statement. Experts flew in by helicopter to take samples of the dead reindeer, amid a rising st

Politician caught playing Pokémon Go during Session

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The leader of Norway's Liberal Party who was determined to catch them all has been caught playing Pokemon Go during a parliamentary hearing on foreign affairs and defense. Trine Skei Grande told reporters that some people focus better while doing something "braindead." However, committee members weren't impressed, Grande said she stopped playing the game after complaints were made.